CONTENTS

1. CordellWoodWright_2023_DiseaseandDissent_Results.R = R code used to produce all the results in the manuscript and appendix (Table 1, Table 2, and Figure 3).

2. CordellWoodWright_2023_DiseaseandDissent.csv = 27,664 first-order administrative unit-years, representing events in sixty African and Latin American countries between 1990 and 2017. This includes a matched subset of 3,778 first-order administrative-year units.

- GID_0: Unique ID for level 0 (country-unit) using GADM spatial data       
    
- GID_1: Unique ID for level 1 (first-order administration unit) using GADM spatial data      
                
- year: Year       
                 
- social_unrest_count: Count of the total number of all organized and spontaneous demonstrations or riots that take place within a first-order administrative unit in a given year using SCAD data  

- epidemic_dummy: Dummy variable coded "1" if an epidemic took place in the given administrative unit during a year and "0" otherwise using EM-DAT data 
         - epidemic_severity: Categorical variable coded "1" if the epidemic in the given administrative unit incurred between 10 and 99 deaths, "2" if it incurred 100 and 999 deaths, "3" if it incurred over 999 deaths are assigned, and "0" if there was no epidemic using EM-DAT data

- pop_dens_log: Natural logarithm of population density in a first-order administrative unit-year using the Center for International Earth Science Information Network (CIESIN) Gridded Population of the World dataset      
       
- night_lights_log: Natural logarithm of stable night light in a first-order administrative unit-year using the DMSP-OLS Nighttime Lights Time Series dataset from the US Air Force Weather Agency         
 
- conflict_intens_log: Natural logarithm of the total number of civilian fatalities generated by armed conflict occurring in a first-order administrative unit-year using the Uppsala Conflict Data Program’s Georeferenced Event Dataset  
       
- political_exclud_group: Binary variable coded "1" if at least one identified communal group resident in the unit was considered powerless, discriminated against, or self-excluded from executive state power in a first-order administrative unit-year according to the Geo-referencing Ethnic Power Relations dataset and "0" otherwise
  - spatial_lag_social_unrest: Spatially weighted version of our dependent variable that divides each neighbor weight by the sum of all neighbor weights in a first-order administrative unit-year using SCAD data

- temporal_lag_social_unrest: One-period lag of the dependent variable in a first-order administrative unit-year using SCAD data
 
- temporal_lag_repression: One-period lag of a dummy variable coded "1" if state forces employed coercive violence against at least one dissent event in a first-order administrative unit the previous year according to SCAD data and "0" otherwise

- democracy: Country-year electoral democracy measure using Coppedge et al. (2021) Varieties of Democracy (V-Dem)                  

- gdppc_log: Natural logarithm of the country-year gross domestic product divided by it's population using the World Bank (2021) World Development Indicators (WDI) dataset                 - gdp_growth: Country-year percentage of GDP growth using the World Bank (2021) WDI dataset 
                 
- pop_log: Natural logarithm of the country-year population size using the World Bank (2021) WDI dataset 
                     
- federalism: Dummy variable coded "1" if the country has a federal system and "0" otherwise
                
- hiv_log: Natural logarithm of the number of HIV-infected persons in a country in a given year us- ing the UNAIDS (2020) dataset                     

- press_freedom: Country-year government censorship measure using Coppedge et al. (2021) V-Dem data
             - physicians_per_1000: Estimated number of physicians per 1,000 people for each country in a given year using the World Bank (2021) WDI dataset   
     
- matched: Dummy variable coded "1" if the first-order administrative-year unit is included in our matched dataset and "0" otherwise          